The plan was to target Jacques Kallis with lots of short stuff. Kallis has now faced lots and lots and lots of short stuff. Meanwhile, we dread to think how much verbal aggression Hashim Amla’s had to counter over the course of his 207-ball unbeaten innings.

We imagine that verbal aggression was pretty intense for the first few overs, but it probably dropped off a bit after four or five hours. Even the Aussies must have exhausted their rich vocabularies of abuse by that point.

1. Siddle becomes a vegetarian, presumably to impress a girl, as there is no other conceivable reason.

2. He stops eating burgers and frequenting burger bars, prefering instead to be seen at The Mental Lentil, Melbourne’s most exclusive veggie eaterie (Motto: Have a sit down, you look exhausted).

3. Top international haut cuisine provider McDonalds withdraws its lucrative offer of post-career sponsorship, an offer that had been conditional on Siddle becoming the most successful bowler in Australian cricket history (after the success of using Shane Warne’s burger-stuffed face on sight screens at test matches).

4. Siddle now no longer has any reason to become the most successful bowler in Australian cricket history.

5. He reverts to bowling Tommy Trundlers like the rest of his teammates, figuring that as they’re going down the pan anyway, why put the effort in.

One thing driving me up the wall with the channel 9 commentary team is them all saying “Gee Kallis is scoring quickly, this is very unusual.”
Only for those living in a bubble, good to see them paying attention to games not involving Australia… :s

I think the idea was right especially against Hashim Amla as he is an Indian and usually the Asians are not well-known for playing short deliveries well but after Amla survived the first session of the play it was no more difficult for him as he adjusted himself according to the situation beautifully and that’s the class of Amla he adjusts himself according to the match.